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Men copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

—Richard Wright

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Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

—John Dewey

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By letting go of what you thought was going to happen in your life, you can enjoy what is actually happening.

—Taylor Negron

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Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

—Shannon L. Alder

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Reality continues to ruin my life.

—Bill Watterson

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I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.

—Zach Braff

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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

—George Santayana

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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

—Hans Urs von Balthasar

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I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.

—Erin Morgenstern in The Night Circus

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We'd met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise; in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

—Nicholas Sparks in Dear John

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I am, indeed, a practical dreamer. My dreams are not airy nothings. I want to convert my dreams into realities as far as possible.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

—Joyce Carol Oates

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Reality, no matter how widened and heightened our perceptions, never ceases to be anything but the effect on us of an infinite mystery.

—Laurens Van der Post

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Poetry is the deification of reality.

—Edith Sitwell

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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

—Albert Einstein

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